Intel announces the availability of Iris A-series of discrete graphics for mobile

On March 31, Intel recently announced the launch of the Intel® Iris Discrete Graphics Series for Notebook Computers. This is the first discrete graphics to be released in the Intel Iris A-series graphics portfolio, and the company will also release products for desktops and workstations this year. Intel highlights the Iris A series of mobile discrete graphics, the first laptops with Trizen discrete graphics, and the hardware, software, and services of the Iris Graphics platform designed to deliver high-performance graphics experiences for gamers and content creators around the world.

Intel Iris A-series mobile discrete graphics

Intel Iris A-series discrete graphics will be used in a wide range of mobile devices, including several of the first models with Iris 3 Series graphics will also be certified to the Intel Evo platform, including the A350M designed for ultra-thin books and the A370M designed to balance performance and thinness.

· Intel Iris 3 Series Discrete Graphics delivers a 1080p mainstream gaming and content creation experience. When running many popular games, laptops powered by the Sharp A370M can deliver more than 1080p @60fps.

· Both the Intel Iris 5 Series and the Iris 7 Series deliver leading content creation performance, as well as more powerful graphics and compute performance. The Rei 5 series and 7 series have more Xe cores, more ray-traced units, and higher GDDR6 memory than the Rei 3 series.

· The first laptops with The Sharp 3 Series discrete graphics cards are now available for pre-order, and laptops with the Sharp 5 Series and The Sharp 7 Series will be available early this summer. Intel Iris A-series graphics for desktops will also be released this summer.

The first laptops to feature Intel Iris discrete graphics

Many of the first laptops with Intel Iris Discrete graphics will be certified by the Intel Evo platform and feature Intel's latest 12th generation Core processors, creating an ultra-thin and light experience for users while combining Wi-Fi 6, instant response, and long battery life. The intel®stencil graphics will provide mobile devices with great gaming and creative capabilities. Please refer to the product release video for product information about OEM partners.

Xe HPG microarchitecture

All products powered by Intel Iris A-Series Discrete Graphics are built on Intel's new Xe HPG microarchitecture and are designed for gamers and content creators. Xe HPG delivers outstanding performance, energy efficiency, and scalability for Intel Iris™ graphics. Features include:

· The Xe kernel with the built-in Xe Matrix Extension (XMX) AI engine delivers 16x the computing power of AI inference compared to traditional GPU vector units, which will also help significantly improve the performance of productivity, game, and content creation workloads.

· The Xe Media Engine accelerates numerous video codecs and supports a wide range of industry standards, as well as industry-leading AV1 hardware-accelerated codecs.

· The Xe Display Engine supports high-resolution, high-refresh HDR displays, and it also supports the latest industry standards, such as the uncompressed 4K @120Hz display refresh rate content with Display Port 2.0 10G.

Game technology and collaboration

From the Intel Iris 3 Series to the Intel Iris 7 Series, all Intel Iris Discrete Graphics fully supports DirectX 12 Ultimate and leading gaming technologies such as hardware-accelerated ray tracing and Xe Supersampling (XeSS).

· DirectX 12 Ultimate technology includes ray tracing, variable rate shading, mesh shading, and sampler feedback.

· AI-powered Intel XeSS Supersampling Technology can dramatically improve game performance. For example, give your game the ability to render game frames at native 1080p resolution, and then achieve image quality close to native 4K resolution with XeSS supersampling technology.

· Intel is committed to providing the Day 0 game driver, and the company is currently working with game studios around the world to optimize technologies such as Intel's Sharp Discrete Graphics and XeSS on a variety of next-generation games.

· XeSS will be released this summer and is expected to be supported by more than 20 games. To allow more software and hardware in the industry to support the technology, Intel plans to make the XeSS SDK and toolkit available to everyone.

Intel Deep Link technology

Iris mobile discrete graphics will support Intel Deep Link technology, which enables Iris discrete graphics to work seamlessly with Intel CPUs and integrated graphics, and enhances the gaming, authoring, and streaming experience with the following features:

· Super Encoding — Super Encoding enables media engines across the platform to be combined to each other, resulting in 60% faster video encoding than intel iris X graphics only.

· Super Computing Power – Similarly, Super COMPUTING is able to invoke multiple compute and AI engines across the Intel platform, including Intel Core processors, Iris X graphics, and Intel Iris Discrete graphics, accelerating a variety of workloads.

· Dynamic Power Sharing—Based on workload conditions, Dynamic Power Sharing intelligently and automatically prioritizes engine performance and allocates more power to Intel Core processors or Intel IRis Graphics as needed, improving the performance of creative and compute-intensive applications by up to 30%.

Intel Iris Graphics Community

Intel is working with the community and developers to deliver more and more optimized gaming and multimedia applications to Intel Iris Graphics users through a number of special projects.

· Special projects vary by system and region, with the first project scheduled to be launched in April for gamers and content creators with the launch of the A-Series mobile offering.

· Intel will continue to offer a series of events and promotions to the Iris community.

· In addition, Intel offers applications for the Intel Iris Control Panel. It's a one-stop control panel that supports convenient interactions, giving users full control over the gaming experience. The Glitch control panel includes custom performance profiles, built-in live streaming settings, virtual camera, integrated Game ON driver downloads, automatic generation of game highlight moments, and more. The Intel Iris Control Panel supports Intel Iris X, Iris X MAX, and Iris Discrete graphics for a unified software experience.

Developer resources

Intel offers leading oneAPI cross-architecture tools that help game developers and content creators unlock the unique benefits of Intel CPUs and Sharp GPUs and optimize applications to maximize visual performance.

· Analyze and optimize graphics bottlenecks. Developers can use Intel Graphics Performance Analyzers to analyze graphics and gaming applications and enhance their analytical capabilities with ray tracing, system-level analytics, and XeSS techniques.

· Accelerate media processing and cloud gaming live streaming. The InteloneAPI Video Processing Library (oneVPL) supports hardware-accelerated AV1 codec, as well as super encoding in Deep Link, so it can take advantage of multiple Intel accelerators on the platform for high-speed transcoding.

· Accelerate compute-intensive tasks. With Intel VTune Profiler, developers can identify the most time-consuming parts of CPU and GPU code and visualize worker threads to quickly identify concurrency issues and more.

· Application of AI and machine learning in games. Intel Game Dev AI Toolkit offers a range of AI capabilities, including creating immersive virtual worlds and real-time visual style migrations on in-game objects.